Pretty When You Cry dropped on Amazon over the weekend! It’s only $2.99 to celebrate the release – and for a very LIMITED TIME, includes the standalone dark romance novel Wanderlust as a bonus!!
“Dark, perverse, and unbearably erotic, Pretty When You Cry is Skye Warren at her gritty best.”
~ Anna Zaires, USA Today bestselling author of Twist Me
I came from a place of dirt floors and holy scriptures. They told me the world outside was full of sin, and the first night I escape, I find out it’s true. Ivan saves me, but he does more than that. He takes me. He makes me his own girl.
My conditioning runs too deep. Ivan sees what I am.
That’s the thing about showing a mouse to a cat. He wants to play. And it’s terrifying, even for me. Because the only thing darker than my past is his.
This is my darkest book of the year, and I’m so thrilled to share Ivan and Candy with you. Here’s what readers are saying…
“5 deliciously dark stars! I love how dark and twisted this book is.” – Alpha Book Club
“Skye Warren you keep leaving me speechless and my mind blank with the worst book hangover ever.” – Bibliophile Wonderland Reviews
“When you sit down to write a review and get chills, that’s when you know a story is going to stay with you… Gritty, raw, powerful and most of all beautiful.” – The Book Sirens
“The writing is so incredibly fluid, the characters so intriguing, and the story so captivating. If I could give this book more than five stars, I would. It’s as emotional as it is sexy, and beautiful as it is dark. Absolutely flawless.” – Sammy, Just Let Me Read
Thank you for reading – and be sure to one-click right away to get the sale price and the bonus novel <3
Yours,
Skye
It’s release day for Dark & Dangerous! That’s 99 pennies for NINE dark romances, including my book Love the Way You Lie. There’s also Owned by M. Never, Breathe by CD Reiss, His Witness by Vanessa Waltz and more!
Delicious dark romance, toe-curling suspense, and sinful pleasure, all packed into one boxed set. We’ve gathered all your favorite Dark Romance and Suspense stories and combined them into one scorching bundle. These possessive alphas, sexy bad-boys, and savage heroes will claim your heart and leave you begging for mercy.
This anthology contains:
~ Mr. X by Clarissa Wild
~ Gypsy Brothers: Part 1-3 by Lili St. Germain
~ Overwhelmed By You by Nashoda Rose
~ Owned by M. Never
~ Breathe by CD Reiss
~ Epiphany by Gemma James
~ His Witness by Vanessa Waltz
~ Love The Way You Lie by Skye Warren
~ Irrevocable by Skye Callahan
Over 2500 pages of hot & dangerous alpha males – On SALE for a LIMITED TIME!
EVEN BETTER is out now! This is the sexy, brand new novella in the Stripped series!
A story about how coming together can break us apart…
An old military friend of Blue’s comes to stay with us, and suddenly I have two muscled men surrounding me. Before I can take a breath, we’re diving into something dirty together—something dangerous. Dangerous because three is a crowd.
This is Blue’s best friend, and one of us will have to leave.
I love this review of Even Better from the Book Sirens… “Blue and Hannah are the kind of characters that stay with you. They are both so broken, but together they are whole. Their love is harsh, but so achingly beautiful it makes you want to weep.”
If you’re new to the series, the prequel novella Tough Love is available free on Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and more.
Pretty When You Cry, the next novel in the Stripped series, is Ivan and Candy’s story. There’s an extended excerpt in the file so you can see how they meet… the book is explosive, and I’m thrilled with how it came out. That releases on October 20th!
I’m part of this super sexy, blazing hot boxed set of BDSM romance… available for one-clicking now for 99 cents!
Your spiciest fantasies in one great box set! Thirteen NYT, USA Today, and best-selling authors have banded together to bring you 13 hot-as-sin erotic romance books about the wildest, craziest, most passionate varieties of love.
This is the Hottest of the Red Hot Boxed Sets! Explore your wild side, your Dominant side, your submissive side, and your tied-up-and-teased side. Enjoy these tales about very particular kinds of nightclubs, ropes, handcuffs, and blindfolds that delve into your deepest, darkest desires!
These thirteen men aren’t here to be your “book boyfriends.” Oh, no, when one of these men shoves you up against the wall with his hands all over you, he wants to have you, body and soul. He plays rough, and he wants you to submit to what he wants, what he needs, and he won’t stop until you’re moaning his name.
It’s always safe and consensual, but it’s never vanilla.
This set will only be available for a limited time–and the 99 cent price is even more limited, so be sure to one-click and start reading <3
Sweet, the next book in the Chicago Underground series, is out now! This is a very steamy romance with a ballerin and a hot lawyer…
My brother is both powerful and cruel, which means I have a lot of enemies I’ve never met. He swears he’ll keep me safe, but what I want most is to break free.
I especially want to break free with Drew, my brother’s lawyer. But as those enemies draw closer, the cost of my freedom may be the man I’ve come to love.
I’m so excited that Love the Way You Lie is on sale! For this week only, new readers will be able to read the first novel in the dark, sexy Stripped series for only 99 cents. If you haven’t read it yet, now is the time!
And if you have read it, I would hugely appreciate if you spread the word about the sale.
“I’ve always been a fan of Skye Warren ever since I read Wanderlust. Her writing is flawless and tales captivating. Love The Way You Lie is no exception. 5 Stars.” – Pepper Winters, New York Times bestselling author of Tears of Tess
“It’s gritty, edgy, and sexy, served to you in the well-written, absorbing style that Skye is so talented at delivering. I can’t wait to get my hands on the rest of the Stripped series.” – Shameless Book Club
“I LOVED it! Instantly compelling and thrillingly unpredictable, Honor and Kip’s story delivers a jagged, layered and enthralling adventure that weaves darkness and light with precision and purpose.” – the lusty literate
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And last but not least, I’m so pleased that Love the Way You Lie is now available in audiobook! The narration is sexy, sultry, and very professional. You can download the audiobook here -> http://amzn.to/1eX2x9C
I’m thrilled to share the news that Better When It Hurts is out now! This is the second novel in the Stripped series–a filthy hot romance with a foster brother who’s back for revenge. Fair warning: Blue is a cruel bastard and a dirty talker <3
A forbidden romance about pain that binds us together…
Five years ago we lived in the same house. He was the ultimate bad boy.
And my foster brother.
Now he’s back. Tougher, harder, meaner. All of it aimed at me, because I was the one who sent him away. It’s payback time. He wants his pound of flesh, and I am helpless to say no.
Here’s what early reviews are saying…
“5 Angsty Love-versus-Hate Stars! Better When It Hurts sucked me in hook, line, and sinker within the first few pages.” – Allison, The Reading Escapade Book Blog
“There’s one thing I can say with certainty, Skye Warren never fails to deliver a heartfelt, slightly dark, I can’t stop turning the pages story. This one is no different.” – Di, Twisted Sisters
“Very Angsty 5 Star Read! This book is so compelling, you won’t be able to put it down, this is one of those books that you’ll want to save to re-read.” – Melissa, Books Can Take You There
And here’s a dirty excerpt you won’t find in the sample pages…
The whistle of a belt coming off follows me into Blue’s bedroom. My breath stutters in my chest. I hear the threat of the movement, the speed and power behind it. It’s more than a man getting undressed.
There’s a hundred ways a belt can be used to hurt me. I know them well.
I turn my head to the side, addressing him but showing deference too. It’s an instinct now. It’s survival. “What are you going to do with that?”
“I’d rather show you,” he says, approaching me, prowling around me.
I don’t want him to hit me with that belt. Not because I can’t take the pain. I know I can, because I’ve done it before. I don’t want him to hit me because I might start hating him.
“Wait,” I say.
He doesn’t wait. One hand takes my wrist. Standing behind me, he leans close. “What do you think I’ll do with this? Make your pretty skin all red? Make you cry?”
I tense, twisting my arm. It only hurts me, and I’m still held tight. “Don’t.”
“I’m going to do both of those things before we’re done here, Lola.” He pauses, loosening his grip slightly. “But I’m not going to whip you with this.”
There’s only a second where I can feel relieved before I feel him drawing my other hand behind me. It’s a mistake to relax around him. Whatever I’m thinking, he’s doing something different. However much I brace myself, it’s still going to hurt.
He wraps the soft leather around my wrists, binding them together behind my back. It pushes my breasts out in front of me. Cool air brushes over my skin, tightening my nipples.
There’s weakness in this pose, being held, being open.
And there’s strength too, the pride of being wanted, the power of desire.
“On your knees,” he says so softly I almost don’t hear him.
I don’t know what he’s thinking. Whether he sees me as an object he can use or as an enemy he can conquer. I’m a little off balance, lilting to the side as I sink to the carpet. His hands cup my arms, helping me down, guiding my gently. It feels more like worship than anger, more like kindness than cruelty.
At least until the sharp sound of his zipper rips through the air.
His voice follows. “Candy doesn’t think I’ll hurt you.”
I shiver at the foreboding underneath the words. “Yes.”
He undresses slowly, methodically, exposing rough skin and dark hair and a thick, jutting cock.
I have seen his cock before, but only in the dark, holding it in my fist while I jerked him off, shadows and motion. Now I see the skin like the dark side of a peach, almost the color of a bruise. I see the curve of a vein underneath. I see the head of his cock, fat and proud and already glistening at the tip.
I see everything clearly because the saturated late-afternoon light still streams through his window. Our hours are all backward and twisted. Where another woman would do this at midnight, would expose her shame to the moon, mine comes open at five o’clock.
“She thinks you’re safe with me because I protect the other girls.” He approaches me, his cock near my face, his eyes looking down on me. “I even protect you.”
I choke out the words. “Because only you get to touch me.”
He nods approvingly. Candy doesn’t understand, he means. I understand. He’s showing me that we’re together on this, like some perverted joint mission where I agree to be hurt. And haven’t I? I showed up here of my own free will. Maybe I do want what’s coming to me.
Loving the Beast is out now! This is the epilogue novella of Blake and Erin from the Beauty series. These two are hotter than ever, which is a fitting final story for them.
“We’ll put on a show, beautiful. One for just you and me.”
If you haven’t read the Beauty series yet, you can start with Beauty Touched the Beast for free as part of the Red Hot Beginnings boxed set. Or you can head straight to the Beauty series compilation, which contains the prequel short story Beauty Touched the Beast and the next three novellas, to get the series Nina’s Literary Escape calls “Sweet, poignant and sinfully erotic.”
Red Hot Beginnings is a boxed set of fourteen first-in-a-series romances. And the best part is, the boxed set is free!
Some of the stories are short, like Beauty Touched the Beast, which is my entry, and Seek by Clarissa Wild. Others are full-length novels like Liv Morris’s Adam’s Apple and Cora Seton’s The Navy SEAL’s E-Mail Order Bride. All of them are super hot and free in this set for a limited time.
Please feel free to share the word about the Red Hot Beginnings boxed set. We want everyone to have a chance to one-click before it’s gone.
My next release is coming up fast. Loving the Beast, the Beauty epilogue novella, comes out on April 28th. Less than 10 days! You can pre-order your copy on Amazon, B&N, and iBooks.
Better When It Hurts has a blurb and cover now! Have you ordered your copy yet? This is Blue & Lola’s story…
Five years ago we lived in the same house. He was the ultimate bad boy. And my foster brother.
Now he’s back. Tougher, harder, meaner. All of it aimed at me, because I was the one who sent him away. It’s payback time. He wants his pound of flesh, and I am helpless to say no.
And if you haven’t started the Stripped series yet, what are you waiting for? 😉
Here’s what people are saying about the books:
“It’s gritty, edgy, and sexy, served to you in the well-written, absorbing style that Skye is so talented at delivering. I can’t wait to get my hands on the rest of the Stripped series.” – Shameless Book Club
“A jagged, layered and enthralling adventure that weaves darkness and light with precision and purpose.” – the lusty literate
“It’s dark, mysterious, sexy, and I loved every page of it! There were twists and turns that I never saw coming! I love when an author is able to keep me guessing until the very end of the book.” – Book Fancy Book Blog
“Love The Way You Lie was heartwarming, exhilarating and tantalizing with just the right tinge of darkness.” – Warhawke’s Vault
I’ll do anything to get safe, even if that means working at the scariest club in town.
I’ll do anything to stay hidden, even if it means taking off my clothes for strangers.
I’ll do anything to be free. Except give him up. When he looks at me, I forget why I can’t have him. He’s beautiful and scarred. His body fits mine, filling the places where I’m hollow, rough where I am soft.
He’s the one man who wants to help, but he has his own agenda. He has questions I can’t answer. What are you afraid of?
You.
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“I’ve always been a fan of Skye Warren ever since I read Wanderlust. Her writing is flawless and tales captivating. Love The Way You Lie is no exception. 5 Stars.” – Pepper Winters, New York Times bestselling author of Tears of Tess
Books in the Stripped series
½. Tough Love (prequel)
1. Love the Way You Lie
2. Better When It Hurts
3. Pretty When You Cry
Praise for Skye Warren:
“Skye’s ability to make me feel like I am part of this dramatic, dark, and twisted story is so f-ing fantastic I can only sit here and beg for more.” – Fictional Candy
“Author Skye Warren weaves a complex, deep, and haunting tale that has a raw and gritty mixture of violence and moving tenderness.” – Jersey Girl Sizzling Book Reviews
“Great edge-of -your-seat writing, touching emotional introspection, and enlightening… even in it’s darkness.” – Maryse’s Book Blog
I have a new release out… this one came as a surprise, even to me! When I first conceptualized my new Stripped series, Love the Way You Lie was the first book. But after I’d finished writing it, the heroine’s sister Clara kept tugging at me. And so I wrote a prequel.
Tough Love is short, sweet, and available now!
A story about the sacrifices we make for love…
I sneak out of my room every night. My father’s guards don’t see me. My sister doesn’t see me.
No one sees me, except him.
He’s the son of a mafia foot soldier. My father is the boss. I shouldn’t even know Giovanni. And I definitely shouldn’t kiss him. Our relationship is doomed to fail, but that won’t stop me from trying.
Not every girl wants to be a princess. I just want to be free.
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TOUGH LOVE is a prequel to the Stripped Series. It ends on a cliffhanger…
½. Tough Love (prequel)
1. Love the Way You Lie
2. Better When It Hurts (June 2015)
You can start reading here or with book one, LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE.
Praise for Skye Warren:
“Skye’s ability to make me feel like I am part of this dramatic, dark, and twisted story is so f-ing fantastic I can only sit here and beg for more.” – Fictional Candy
“Author Skye Warren weaves a complex, deep, and haunting tale that has a raw and gritty mixture of violence and moving tenderness.” – Jersey Girl Sizzling Book Reviews
“Great edge-of -your-seat writing, touching emotional introspection, and enlightening… even in it’s darkness.” – Maryse’s Book Blog
I have a new preorder available! Want more Erin and Blake? LOVING THE BEAST is a Beauty epilogue, a sexy and sweet and emotional novella to cap off the series…
Since their forbidden beginning, Erin and Blake’s relationship has been marked by deep sensuality and intense emotion. Each challenge only makes them stronger, and Blake is ready to take his new fiance to meet his family. And to meet hers.
Home holds secrets for them both. A dark legacy threatens everything they’ve worked to build. When old debt comes between them, both Blake and Erin must fight to protect each other–and their love.
And before that comes out, I’ll be releasing my new dark book! LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE does not have a pre-order, but it will release on March 12th.
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My next release is titled Love the Way You Lie and it releases on March 12th!
A dark romance about the lies that lead us down…
I’ll do anything to get safe, even if that means working at the scariest club in town.
I’ll do anything to stay hidden, even if it means taking off my clothes for strangers.
I’ll do anything to be free. Except give him up. When he looks at me, I forget why I can’t have him. He’s beautiful and scarred. His body fits mine, filling the places where I’m hollow, rough where I am soft.
He’s the one man who wants to help, but he has his own agenda. He has questions I can’t answer. What are you afraid of?
I’m going to be the featured author in the Goodreads BDSM group for their monthly chat. You can come ask questions about my books, chat with me and other readers, and win books.
The Goodreads BDSM group is a great place for recs so it’s worth joining, if you’re not already a member. I actually credit them with my start because they picked one of my first books as a monthly read way back when.
Be sure to join SOON though, because they have to manually approve every member due to Goodreads rules and the awesome dirtiness that’s inside. You’ll want to have plenty of time to get in before the chat on Thursday!
Thank you so much for your support of the Take Me boxed set! You pushed it all the way up to #36 on Amazon by buying and sharing the set. All the authors, and myself, are hugely grateful. And if you didn’t buy it you can still get the set, but only through the end of February.
I’m also writing to tell you about a brand new bundle. This is a little different than the boxed sets that you’re used to. This is a site called StoryBundle that’s quite popular in the science fiction/thriller/other genres, but this is the very first Erotic Romance StoryBundle. So it’s an honor to be a part of it, along with New York Times bestselling author Selena Kitt and other authors.
The way it works is you get to pick your price, give some of it to charity, and unlock bonus books. I have On the Way Home included in the set, which is my new adult dark romance. Here’s what readers had to say about that one:
“On the Way Home has so many aspects that I love in a book: suspense, steamy sex, ruthless crime bosses, a military leading male, and dark, gritty, and twisty romance. I highly recommend this to readers that enjoy their romance with a dark, edgy, and suspenseful twist.”
– Tattooed Book Review
“So Clint and Della have to be the hottest pick me up at the airport and bring me home to kink me hookup ever…I loved On the Way Home!”
– She Hearts Books
“ON THE WAY HOME is yet another extraordinary story from Skye Warren and I loved every moment of it.”
– The Romance Evangelist
The StoryBundle also includes several other books, including Temptation by Selena Kitt which was one of the first erotic books I ever read–in a previously published version, that was actually pulled by Amazon because it’s so taboo! She revised and expanded the book. If you’re looking for something crazy hot that will push your boundaries, this is it…
Today is release day for my new boxed set, Take Me: Twelve Tales of Dark Possession. It has an all-star line up of some of my favorite authors in dark romance. You may remember Pepper Winters and Pam Godwin from the Make Me set last year. And new this year are Jenika Snow, Lynda Chance, CD Reiss and more.
The important thing to know about this set is that it’s only 99 cents for release week. So it’s important that you one-click it right now AND tell your bookish friends about it so they can get the deal too.
Surrender to desire with 12 books by the hottest names in dark romance, including…
CD Reiss – Spin
Jenika Snow – A Beautiful Prison
Pepper Winters – Destroyed
Skye Warren – Trust in Me
Kendall Ryan – Unravel Me
Anna Zaires & Dima Zales – Twist Me
Shay Savage – Otherwise Alone & Otherwise Occupied
Amber Lin & Shari Slade – Three Nights with a Rock Star
Pam Godwin – Deliver
Lynda Chance – Marco’s Redemption
Gemma James – Torrent
Even if you’ve read my book Trust in Me before, I’ve added a brand new prologue and epilogue to it! I’m also asking that if you’ve read one or more of the books in the set already, to consider leaving a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any of the sites you use.
As you may know, the book in the boxed set Take Me is TRUST IN ME. I wrote a brand new prologue and epilogue to go in the set. I also spent some time looking at that book and that series–and the fact that Hear Me never really fit in.
Plus the old name, Dark Erotica, was kind of misleading because people would always ask me if it had an HEA. Which they do, because I write romance. Really, really dark romance
I’ve officially removed Hear Me from the series. It’s now a standalone dark romance novella. I also wrote a new chapter for Keep Me Safe. And I expanded TRUST IN ME. It’s now a novel, yay!
The new series name is Dark Nights:
1) KEEP ME SAFE – prequel novella
2) TRUST IN ME
3) DON’T LET GO
If you haven’t read this series, you can start with either KEEP ME SAFE or TRUST IN ME. Both are available now with their fancy new covers and content. or you can pre-order the Take Me boxed set to get TRUST IN ME delivered to you on Feb 3rd.
If you have already read the series, you can ask Amazon to push an update of the book to your devices. I’ll also add the new content only to my group soon to make extra sure my existing fans who’ve already read the books can get it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1569845016592572/
Thank you so much for reading and supporting my books!
Thank you to everyone for making 2014 a great year! I had several releases, including:
My dark romance with a military hero, ON THE WAY HOME
TAKE THE HEAT, an anthology of criminal romance
PRISONER!!!
And a surprise release holiday novella, HIS FOR CHRISTMAS
It’s been a fantastic ride. I hope you’ve enjoyed it with me. And I have BIG plans for 2015, including a new series and another joint project with other authors that I’ll be unveiling in a matter of days.
I have a couple awesome things to share with you! First and foremost, a new release! His for Christmas is a sweet and sexy holiday novella featuring a tortured billionaire and his new secretary–who’s hiding a secret.
Here’s the blurb:
I stand very still, holding a pen I shouldn’t be touching, in the office of a man I’ve never met. The man who’s standing behind me now. The man who has his hand on my hip.
He’s my new boss.
I could fight him, but then he might ask questions. He might find out about my criminal record, the one I didn’t mention on the job application. So I let him make me come, but he wants more. He needs more, and for some reason I want to give it.
But if he finds out about my lie, I’ll be out on the streets—or back in jail.
I wrote this one for my fans who wanted more sexy non-capture stories from me! And I kept the price low at 99 cents so everyone can enjoy Gage and Lia’s story <3
The other piece of news is quick but fun. I've started a Facebook group that will have exclusive giveaways, book discussions, and more. The group is called Skye Warren's Dark Room and you can join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1569845016592572/